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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
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Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.
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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
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Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
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The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.
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I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
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Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
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How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.
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If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
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